jamīka

jamiika

jamīka

bridge.

This word has a curious history. It is related to the stem -ālm- which means across. The word for bridge was originally jālmīke, derived from -ālm- and the suffix for made things -īk-. However, there is a prefix āl- which is an augmentative prefix, and so jālmīke came to be reanalyzed as ‘large’ + -mīk-, which came to mean bridge.

la jamīki nā sū þō jamāonre mē;
There are many bridges in this city.

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jasūna

jasuuna

jasūna

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la jāo ñe jasūna-nle;
This is our room.

I’m on vacation in Melbourne, Australia, with my Mom, and this is a picture of our room. I hope to have a picture and a word everyday, but I cannot guarantee that I will actually be able to post everyday.